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feline-insolitum · 4 months
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i was gonna put this on a reblog to this post but i decided it needed to be its own post so here we go
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LOOK AT HIM!!!
most other trainers will be super badass or cool whenever theyre terastallizing their pokemon. but kieran just kinda stands there devoid of life. he looks like hes not even there. almost like he's just... dissociating through the whole thing
you can also see eyebags that his teal mask model didn't have. he's been working himself to the absolute bone to get stronger. another character (i forget who) even says hes been sacrificing sleep just to get stronger. its very obviously been taking a toll on him
but looking back on the battle as a whole, this wasnt even the only time where he looked dull and lifeless. for the entire battle, when hes not being dramatic on purpose, he just looks so out of it
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you cant look at these pictures and tell me hes mentally present. the left picture isnt even timed to make him look like that. his expression is like that the entire time hes giving that line of dialogue.
and again, you can see visible eyebags!!!
i think part of it is that hes imagined the battle against the protagonist so many times since getting back from kitakami that it's feels like it's already happened to him, and he's just reliving a memory.
maybe another part is since hes gotten back, hes just been battling non stop when he has the chance. to him its just another battle. initiate, defeat, get stronger. rinse and repeat. its so repetitive that half the time he doesnt even know who hes battling. i feel like thats the case here, maybe sometimes he forgets hes even battling the person that he became this strong to defeat in the first place
i think why he did this to himself is because of more than "just getting stronger". after everything that happened in kitakami: gaining a friend, only for them to lie to and betray him about the thing he loves most, then for them to get closer with his sister, who would consistently shut him down, then on top of it all, ogerpon chose us, and even in trying to battle us for her, we beat him.
that is a lot to have happen to you in just a couple days, so i think part of the non stop training is him trying to cope. in trying to make up for "being too weak", hes also trying to escape reality and forget that those things even happened. he looks so out of it for the entire battle because he is. thats why he has such a reaction when we use ogerpon against him in battle. because by doing that, were reminding him
this is all part of why he freaks out so hard when we beat him. aside from his whole complex of getting stronger specifically to beat us, its because hes already imagined beating us so many times that to him, it already kinda happened in his sleep deprived mind. its because hes won battle after battle since getting back from kitakami, so after being in this rinse and repeat cycle of battling and winning, us losing causes him to finally snap out of it.
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after the protag wins, hes genuinely confused that he lost. but he knew how strong the protag was going into this. i think its because, for the majority of the battle, due to not being mentally present, he forgot he was battling us.
this, as well as how often he wouldve imagined him beating us, explains very well how surprised and shocked and panicked he is that he lost. "this wasnt supposed to happen" because it was just another battle, and he wins battles. "this wasnt supposed to happen" because he already imagined him beating us so many times that it had to have been real, right?
and because this monotonous cycle he was in that was actively draining him of energy was broken by us beating him, everything that he hadnt had the energy to process since training is hitting him like a truck now. ogerpon, the betrayal, how he kept losing to us, how he just lost to us right this moment, its all too much and he cant handle it. and so he crumples to the ground and has a mental breakdown
i didnt mean to turn this into a whole character analysis on kieran but i have a LOT of thoughts on his character and how hes written
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milliemuus · 1 month
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Sparkle on!
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nyanimisu · 4 months
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Marketable Kieran plush
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justaninsomniac · 3 months
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Oc x Canon mini art dump cause why not? The last 3 pictures are of my Mc ingame. Her name is Darcy.
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bewarebugbear · 7 months
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kieran in bb academy
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septiseph · 4 months
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florian, kieran, and kieran's hydrapple
(+ furret & carmine)
I like to imagine those syrpents being total gremlins lol
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ink-ami · 5 months
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GAMEFREAK I DIDN'T PAY THE DLC TO NOT SEE THE CRATER CREW. Like they did a teasing for the DLC using "the treasure was friendship thing" SO PLEASE USE IT.
And if by miracle they do, I hope they can meet the siblings. I kinda regret not drawing Kieran in his previous appearance, but the current one would be Nemona's perfect training partner. And considering how bitchy Carmine was meeting us and how sassy Penny was meeting Arven, they'd understand each other I think. Dunno how to put Arven in this dynamic, socializing isn't his forte (love him still).
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redcallisto · 4 months
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Kieran my baby boy. someone take him to a therapist please
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crimson-i-guess · 4 months
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They're all a little silly
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overchromatic · 4 months
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Kieran experiences the worst high of his life
(original comic by punkitt-is-here)
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i-like-media · 5 months
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<- So basically, I've got a boyfriend and an ex now, right?
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wildflowercryptid · 3 months
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how carmine finds out florian's got a thing for kieran
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milliemuus · 2 months
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Doodle fanart for @angelabsol for their @kieranpon-nogood-awful-semester au! I absolutely love their design 🥺
This was supposed to be a doodle of him facing off against PV hence the distressed facial expression 👀
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kiwiuhhhhh · 3 months
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Kieran must discuss with the apple council about trading!!!!
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petorahs · 3 months
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an explanation of the side effects of the Terastal phenomenon
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pantheramybeloved26 · 3 months
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Drayton after Kieran got defeated.
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